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The body of 20-year-old Ali Abdul Hadi Mushaima, allegedly killed in clashes with security forces, is prepared for burial in Daih, Bahrain. (Photo by James Lawler Duggan / AP)

Food and science stun the senses

A former technology chief for Microsoft, Nathan Myhrvold has spent the last three years in a culinary lab with dozens of other researchers perfecting the science of cooking.

ABC News

Blog:

Foodies bow down before ex-Microsoft CTO’s cooking bible

(The Atlantic)

Strange Bedfellows

The politics of education upended

Teachers unions, historically one of the most powerful interest groups in American politics, are being besieged like never before — under attack from conservative GOP governors and even some Democrats.

Politico

Wisconsin schools call off classes as budget protests continue

CNN

Clinton urges Bahrain to show ‘restraint’

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Bahrain to show restraint in dealing with anti-government protests after riot police drove demonstrators from a central square in a bloody crackdown.

MSNBC

Analysis: Saudi Arabia, jolted by Egypt, now alarmed by Bahrain

Reuters

Special section:

Protests across the Middle East and North Africa

BBC

Who got high-speed rail money?

The federal government has more than $10 billion in stimulus and other money set aside for high-speed rail projects. Until now it has made commitments to spend $4.5 billion.

CNNMoney

Are you being served? National broadband map going live

The Commerce Department unveiled a national broadband inventory map, which will allow the public to see where high-speed Internet is available throughout the country.

PC Magazine

Map:

The national broadband map

broadbandmap.gov

NATION

Obama to sign bill naming courthouse after slain Ariz. judge

President Barack Obama will sign a bill in the Oval Office naming a new federal courthouse in Yuma, Arizona, after slain federal Judge John M. Roll.

CNN

Fed raises growth forecast for 2011

Minutes from the most recent meeting of the Federal Reserve show that policymakers anticipate a bigger bump in economic growth for 2011 than they thought just a few months ago.

CNNMoney

POLITICS

Hawaii eyes gay ceremonies after civil unions pass

Hawaii lawmakers gave approval to civil unions and sent the legislation to Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie, who plans to sign it into law within 10 business days.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Proposition 8 gay marriage case decision delayed by Calif. Supreme Court move

Sacramento Bee

Republican centrists join Democrats on spending cuts

House Democrats and more centrist Republicans joined forces in a series of spending votes, scoring quick wins.

Politico

HEALTH

Teens ignore fast-food calorie info

Posting calorie information does not appear to have any effect on what children and adolescents choose to eat at fast-food restaurants, a small study suggests.

MedPage Today

Cancer risk: ban caramel coloring in Pepsi, other foods, says group

A nonprofit group is calling for the FDA to ban artificial caramel coloring used in drinks and other foods because animal tests suggest the additive is contaminated with two cancer-causing chemicals.

Medical News Today

Placebo effect may work in reverse

Everyone’s heard of the placebo effect: When you take a sugar pill but believe it is medicine, it tends to work. Now a new study suggests that the opposite may also be true.

HealthDay

ENVIRONMENT

Serengeti World Heritage Site under threat from new highway

Tanzania’s President Jakaya Kilwete gave his support and approval for the major highway project that’s to run through the Serengeti National Park. But scientists say an important ecosystem could be destroyed.

Earth Times

US environmental groups push delay on oil sands pipeline

A coalition of American environmental groups urged the Obama administration to put an indefinite hold on construction of new oil sands pipelines from Canada.

National Post

Extreme rains and global warming linked

Pinning any particular event to global warming is difficult at best. Now, scientists have tried to do just that: They’ve linked extreme precipitation to global warming.

NPR

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

End of the road for the shoe tree

On the “Loneliest Road in America,” a stately cottonwood filled with the footwear of passersby was something in the middle of nothing. Now locals are mourning it like an old friend.

Los Angeles Times

Across the South, the Civil War is an enduring conflict

With the raising of the Stars and Bars and the singing of Dixie, people in antebellum finery will re-enact a divisive moment in U.S. history: Jefferson Davis’ inauguration as president of the Confederacy.

USA TODAY

Andy Warhol self-portrait sells for $17.44M in London

A rare Andy Warhol self-portrait has sold for $17.44 million at auction, having been in private hands since 1974. It was bought by an anonymous bidder at the auction held by Christie’s in London.

BBC

SPORTS

Earnhardt Jr. wrecks Daytona 500 car

Dale Earnhardt’s Daytona Speedweeks took a somewhat more nightmarish turn when he wrecked his primary race car in practice.

Comcast SportsNet

Dale Jr. wrecks pole car in practice

ESPN

Pujols doesn’t sign after deadline passes

The St. Louis Cardinals made Albert Pujols what they said was their best offer. It wasn’t enough. So get ready baseball, because Pujols seems headed for the open market next fall.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Blog:

Pujols arrives in St. Louis with no grudges

(St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Cardinal Beat

Albert Pujols reports to Cards camp

ESPN

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GOOD NEWS

Robot avatar allows sick boy to go to school virtually

Because the slightest cold virus could kill him, Lyndon Baty almost never leaves the house, but science has found a way to let the 15-year-old Texas boy go to school — at least virtually.

MSNBC

RoboCop statue campaign a lesson in saving Detroit

The surprisingly quick campaign to raise at least $50,000 to build a larger-than-life statue of RoboCop in Detroit shouldn’t stop with the crime-fighting cyborg, the fundraisers said.

Detroit Free Press

Secret millionaires surprise friends, charities with gifts

Helen Dyrdal and Grace Groner led simple lifestyles in their respective homes in Seattle and Lake Forest, Ill. To the surprise of many, both women were actually millionaires.

ABC News

WORLD

China censors US Embassy posts on Internet freedom

China’s Internet censors have deleted U.S. Embassy posts promoting Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s speech on Internet freedom from microblogs, parrying U.S. efforts to spur debate.

Reuters

China warns US over Web freedom call

BBC

Iran sending warships to Syria via Suez Canal, Israel says

Two Iranian warships are heading toward the Suez Canal, Israel’s foreign minister said in a speech. He called the act a “provocation” that the Jewish state could not ignore for long.

France24

Thousands of cameras watch China’s Uighurs, inhibiting discourse

Looking slowly around his own bedroom, the nervous Uighur man with hunched shoulders said he wasn’t sure whether he could speak openly about the Chinese government.

McClatchy Newspapers

BUSINESS

US close to punishing banks over foreclosure procedures

A national probe of foreclosure paperwork and procedures found that mortgage servicers broke laws and that homeowners were wrongly evicted.

Reuters

Stocks advance on economic data, earnings beating estimates

U.S. stocks rose, sending the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to a 32-month high, as improving earnings and manufacturing data offset higher-than-forecast growth in consumer prices.

Bloomberg

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

NASA launches search for ‘moon trees’

NASA is trying to track down several hundred aging travelers who flew to the moon and back 40 years ago and now live quietly across the United States.

USA TODAY

Special section:

To the moon

PBS

Virtual behavior labs find what video gamers want

Imagine the power to know every consumer purchase ever made, or the details of any crime committed. That’s the new video gamers’ reality.

LiveScience

Lure of iPad subscriptions may outweigh pain for publishers

There may not be a ton of enthusiasm in the publishing world for Apple’s new policy for subscription services, but the iPad juggernaut may be too big for many publishers to risk pushing back.

PC World

EDUCATION

Teachers and school officials unite on education reform

School administrators, school board leaders and union representatives from 150 districts came together for a conference convened by the U.S. Department of Education.

Christian Science Monitor

SF State may trim its number of colleges

After a year studying how to save money without harming academic quality, a faculty panel says San Francisco State University could save $1 million by collapsing its eight colleges into six.

San Francisco Chronicle

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Inner-city inner peace

Yoga poses, breathing techniques and periods of mindfulness can become the means for children with discipline problems to find solitude and develop inner resources.

Shambhala Sun

Debt is a hot issue for evangelicals

Many economists warn that the government’s huge national debt is a looming threat to long-term prosperity. But is it also immoral?

Religion News Service

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